Albert pulvermacher



(No Model A. PULVERMAGHER.

DOLL.

- Patented Feb. 24, 1891.

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT PULVERMACHER, OF SONNEBERG, GERMANY.

DOLL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,034, dated February 24, 1891.

Application filed September 29, 1890. Serial No. 366,484. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that LALBE T PULVERMACHER,

(called embossers.) If during the use of the doll the cord breaks, or if the head or other part of the body is broken, the doll comes to pieces, and one not skilled will hardly be able to mend such doll and repair it by replacing the defective parts, for itis not easy to tie up the rubber in the correct manner without injuring the hair of the doll. It is self-evident that this old-fashioned articulation, though simple in appearance, is expensive in manufacture, as comparatively high wages have to be paid for this kind of Work. In order to obviate these inconveniences and to produce a joint that any one can set up and one of low price, I have made use of the characteristic properties of spiral springs. A spiral spring is not only elastic, but can also be used as a screw.

My invention consists, mainly, in the combination of such springs with the jointed parts of the dolls and transverse pins arranged therein, as hereinafter more particularly set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical section of an entire doll constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 represents a similar view of a modification of the upper part of the same. Fig. 3 repre sents a crosssection of an arm, taken just above one of the transverse pins; and Fig. at, a longitudinal section of the lower part of said arm.

A designates the head of the doll; B, the upper or thigh part of its legs; 0, the part thereof below the knee 5 D, the body; E, the detachable forearms; 0, pins extending across the lower parts C of the legs, one to each; g,

similar pins crossing the loWer sections E of the arms in the same way; (Z, Fig. 1, thefastening-wires of integral springs cl, engaging pins 0, andfthe spring extending from arm to arm and engaging pins g. The legs and arms are hollow to receive said springs. The head and body are also hollow, the cavity of the latter communicating with the cavities of the arms and legs. A curved collar-piece Z, forming a part of said body, receives the tapering rounded tubular neck A of the headpiece A. The said collar-piece is centrally perforated at Z.

Two wires d, Fig. 1, are attached to the crown of the head A and extend down through the cavity of said head and neck and the hole or passage Z' of said collar-piece. Then,diverging, they pass obliquely down through the cavity of the body to the right leg and left leg, respectively, the part of each wire which is in the leg and lower part of the body being formed into a helical spring cl. This is not fastened at its lower end. If a lower joint 0 of aleg becomes detached, it is necessary only to slip it on the protruding end of said spring until the transverse rod 0 of said part 0 engages the said spring. Then turn the said section, and the rod will acton the spiral ofthe spring as a nut would act on a movable screw and will stretch the spring in so doing. This is continued until the tension of said spring is sufiicient to hold said part 0 securely in/ place. In case of separation at the hi p-joint, the upper part or thigh B of said leg is first slipped oversaid wire until it is in contact with the body D. The lower part 0 is then applied and turned, as before, the rod 0 serving to hold both sections, as well as the head piece A, in place.

To attach the arms a continuous springf, having its middle point in the middle of the said body D, extends in each direction into the cavities of detachable parts E E aforesaid. In case of separation the method of reattachmont is precisely the same as that before described, one of the pinsg and the springf acting like pin 6 and spring d aforesaid.

The doll may be easily taken to pieces by turning the parts 0 and one or both of the parts E in the opposite direction from that above referred to, the rod in each case of such reversal unscrewing from the wire with which it engages.

In the modification shown in Fig. 2 the wires (Z are not attached to the crown of the headpiece, but to an attachment of the neck-piece Z. This attachment consists of a plate 0, extending across the opening Z and having points pressed downward into said neck-piece, and a short tube 19, extending down through said open ing,the latter being enlarged for that purpose. The wires d pass upward through holes 1, in said plate, one on each side of said tube, and are connected or united together above the latter.

The head A is attached to the body 13 independently of the legs by a spring 91, the lower end of which is fast to a pin j on the inside of the body near said neclepiece, the upper part of said spring extending up into said head-piece through said tube 1) and passage n in continuation thereof. This passage is made centrally in a block 11,011 which the neck A is fitted. At the upper end of said passage a pin h crosses it, the ends-of said pin being pointed and bent down into the said block. 'lhis-pinengages the said spring, and the turning of said head to one side or The other tightens the said head in place 'or loosens it for detachment, as aforesaid. The

middle part-of springf is shown as a straight wire; but the spirals may of course be c011- tinuous from end to end; also the partf may be divided and the spring for each arm attached separately to the body, as in the case of the head, Fig. 2. lhe transverse pins or 35 rods 0 may be of any convenient form, a part properly located and capable of engagement with the spring, as described, being all that is needed. This means of fastening may be employed, also, in toys representing animals 40 pins and spiral springs normally inclosed in the cavities of said :toy, the said pins and springs engaging to apply tension to said springs and thereby tighten said parts to- 55 gether when the parts provided with said pins are turned, substantially as set forth.

Intestimon y whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT PULVERMACI'IER.

Witnesses:

B. MENNsFIEL, JULIUS BURNS. 

